Great Movies where the Bad Guys Win!

[Daenoth]

I din't think anyone mentioned it, but I would have to say "3:10 to Yuma". If anyone saw that the good guy dies and you just know that the bad guy is going to escape again.

 

[Caligula_II]

Chinatown.

 

[vansau]

Pitch Black? Riddick isn't really a hero, he's just the lesser of two evils. Also, he has muscles.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Spoiler: Spoiler for a Korean movie. Watch every Korean movie ever made just to be sure that I don't spoil it for you!

Oldboy.

The entire film you've been following Oh Dae-su around, thinking he's the one looking for revenge. Then in the end, you realize that this is not the tale of Oh Dae-Su's revenge. This is the tale about the man extracting revenge on Oh Dae-Su.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

- Braveheart
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The Descent
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Dawn of the Dead

Braveheart and Dawn of the Dead (2004) don't really fit. In Braveheart they establish at the end that the Scots under Robert the Bruce won their freedom after the hero's death, so most of the good guys won. Dawn of the Dead doesn't fit because there is no proper bad guy, the zombies seem more like a force of nature. They both certainly qualify as GREAT though.

 

[WalkNasty]

usual suspects, all of the oceans movies.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well, this isn't a great movie, but at the end of Dead Snow everybody dies. Everyone. All the humans that ever made an appearance in the movie get ripped to shreds by zombies.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Oh, and your avatar... can it be said that the bad guy wins in Fight Club?

I was looking through to see if anyone said that one. I would have to agree with you 100% on that one.

 

[Rawker]

Define "bad guy" I could say Night of the Living Dead, in a way.

Spoiler: NOTLD spoiler

Even though he survives, when the rescue party sees him, he's mistaken as a zombie and shot.

 

[SoranMBane]

Jeepers Creepers. "Where'd he get those peepers" indeed...

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

Define "bad guy" I could say Night of the Living Dead, in a way.

Spoiler: NOTLD spoiler

Even though he survives, when the rescue party sees him, he's mistaken as a zombie and shot.

Bad Guy(s) implies a group or individual. Zombies seem more like a force of nature or great disease.

 

[RivFader86]

the imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
you knew that the bad guy was going to win about halfway through the movie

Have to disagree... the way i see it Doc's goal was to save his daughter from the devil which he accomplished. And Tony was the real bad guy and hanging by your neck is pretty much loosing ;P.

 

[hannan4mitch]

What about great comic books? Because in Watchmen they pull a massive plot twist that has one of the "good guys" destroying half of New York to instigate world peace.

 

[Tharwen]

Any horror film, otherwise it isn't as horrifying as possible.

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

Silence of the Lambs. They catch Buffalo Bill, but Hannibal escapes and is home free.

Oh come on, the movie's 20 years old. Don't you dare complain about spoilers.

 

[Blackvegie]

A lot of people here are saying Watchmen, what made that movie special for me is that there are no good guys and no bad guys. Every character is full of moral ambiguity, so saying that the bad guys won is silly.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

What about great comic books? Because in Watchmen they pull a massive plot twist that has one of the "good guys" destroying half of New York to instigate world peace.

Happens in the movie too. Blowing up major cities to cause world peace that is, I don't recall if one was New York City specifically.

 

[Tdc2182]

A Clockwork Orange. I'd say that Alex won technically.

Never read the book with the extra chapter. It completely kills the messed up ending

Spoiler

Alex realizes that he is acting immature by meeting his old friend George, and decides to grow up